Grid Generation Techniques Utilizing the Volume Grid Manipulator
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- 1998
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- Public Domain
- Topics
- AIR BREATHING ENGINES, LIFTING BODIES, LAUNCH VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS, PROPULSION SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS, HYBRID PROPULSION, SPACECRAFT DESIGN, DESIGN OPTIMIZATION, LAUNCH VEHICLES, TURBINE ENGINES, SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION RAMJET ENGINES
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- NASA
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- English
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This paper presents grid generation techniques available in the Volume Grid Manipulation (VGM) code. The VGM code is designed to manipulate existing line, surface and volume grids to improve the quality of the data. It embodies an easy to read rich language of commands that enables such alterations as topology changes, grid adaption and smoothing. Additionally, the VGM code can be used to construct simplified straight lines, splines, and conic sections which are common curves used in the generation and manipulation of points, lines, surfaces and volumes (i.e., grid data). These simple geometric curves are essential in the construction of domain discretizations for computational fluid dynamic simulations. By comparison to previously established methods of generating these curves interactively, the VGM code provides control of slope continuity and grid point-to-point stretchings as well as quick changes in the controlling parameters. The VGM code offers the capability to couple the generation of these geometries with an extensive manipulation methodology in a scripting language. The scripting language allows parametric studies of a vehicle geometry to be efficiently performed to evaluate favorable trends in the design process. As examples of the powerful capabilities of the VGM code, a wake flow field domain will be appended to an existing X33 Venturestar volume grid; negative volumes resulting from grid expansions to enable flow field capture on a simple geometry, will be corrected; and geometrical changes to a vehicle component of the X33 Venturestar will be shown.
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- 2011-06-09 06:08:50
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- 20040090512
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- nasa_techdoc_20040090512
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- ark:/13960/t11n90423
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- Langley Research Center
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- ABBYY FineReader 8.0
- Online-source
- http://wayback.archive-it.org/1792/20100214190343/http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20040090512
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- Unclassified; Copyright; Unlimited; Publicly available;
- Ppi
- 300
- Report-number
- AIAA Paper 99-4948
- Updated-added-to-ntrs
- 2009-07-29
- Year
- 1998
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